Trauma Competency for the 21st Century

Name: Trauma Competency for the 21st Century
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The Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure for Effective Trauma & PTSD Treatment

Created byJ. Eric Gentry, PhD

Last updated 2/2021

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What you'll learn

Recognize and appreciate the seminal 19th and 20th Century luminaries and their discoveries that have led to the current state of the art and science in treating post-traumatic stress
Discover the “active ingredients”/common elements for treating post-traumatic stress advocated as best practice for the treatment of PTSD by leading agencies and organizations (e.g., APA, VA/DoD, ISTSS, Phoenix Project).
Employ a staged “active ingredient”/common elements approach to evidence-based practice for treating survivors of trauma.
Learn and employ the Empowerment and Resilience Treatment Structure (Gentry, Baranowsky and Rhoton, 2017) for delivery of treatment with trauma survivors
Efficiently and effectively facilitate resolution and healing of post-traumatic conditions
Learn specific psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing engagement and participation in early treatment
Explain the symptoms of traumatic stress to clients in a way that helps makes “good sense” of their experiences, that facilitates self-compassion, and helps them to understand their symptoms as adaptations to past painful learning experience instead of a pathological affliction
Maximize engagement and collaboration in the healing process utilizing evidence-based skills of data collection and feedback processing with clients
Acquire insight into the Polyvagal Theory and how this explanation of ANS functioning assists clients with understanding their symptoms and clinicians to conceptualize tasks of treatment with trauma survivors
Develop, practice and master skills of interoception and acute relaxation to monitor and self-regulate clinician’s own autonomic nervous system as a primary intervention to facilitate a rapid return to comfort in the body (i.e., stress amelioration), maximize neocortical functioning and the ability to remain intentional instead of instinctual reactivity. (Note – This is a primary skill for professional resilience and the prevention of compassion fatigue. This course teaches the participant to develop mastery of this skill BEFORE beginning to teach clients this skill.)
Teach clients skills for self-regulation of their own autonomic nervous system and then to employ these skills to catalyze reciprocal inhibition and Direct Therapeutic Exposure to lessen their anxiety symptoms immediately
Develop CBT skills for helping trauma survivors to rapidly develop stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities
Learn empirical markers to know when it is both necessary (i.e., Criterion B symptoms still present) and safe to transition from the safety/stabilization phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises
Learn and practice a five-part Narrative Exposure Therapy process to integrate and desensitize trauma memories in a safe and efficient manner. Participants will employ graphic, written, non-verbal, verbal, and recursive narratives paired with regulated arousal to catalyze reciprocal inhibition in a method that prevents abreaction and the risk of re-traumatization
Develop state of-the-art insight and skills techniques supporting and facilitating healthy grieving and healing complicated bereavement
Learn to effectively employ Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy ™ as a self-employed method to facilitate post-traumatic growth and resilience for clients.

Course content

1 section • 26 lectures • 14h 5m total length

Welcome0:10
Introduction11:27
Explore trauma competency for the 21st century through a certification course that teaches evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD and a practical treatment trajectory of three therapeutic tasks.
19th & 20th Century Luminaries45:38
Trace the evolution of trauma care from 19th-century hysteria to 21st-century paradigms, highlighting key figures and therapies such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, prolonged exposure, and trauma-informed care.
Posttraumatic Stress - Illness or Injury29:40
Explore how posttraumatic stress arises from memory and energy management, not just events, and learn narrative integration and desensitization to resolve flashbacks and nightmares.
ACEs & Trauma-Informed Care20:49
Explore the history and impact of ACEs on health and how trauma-informed care, grounded in safety, trust, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural humility, transforms care.
21st Century Active Ingredients Approach1:00:12
Apply a 21st century active ingredients approach to trauma therapy by strengthening the therapeutic relationship, teaching self-regulation, psycho education, cognitive restructuring, and exposure through narrative to tailor stage-based care.
DSM IV-TR - DSMV & Assessment56:41
Explore how dsm iv-tr evolved to dsm 5 and learn practical tools for diagnosing and treating ptsd, including the pcl, tiars, and caps assessments.
Feedback Informed Therapy36:54
Master feedback-informed therapy to strengthen the therapeutic relationship in trauma care by using the session rating scale and outcome rating scale. Practice deliberate, data-driven collaboration with clients to tailor treatment.
Positive Expectancy36:58
Foster positive expectancy to empower trauma survivors and strengthen the therapeutic relationship. Use hopeful language to support diagnosis, outcome measurement, and early treatment interventions.
Graphic Time Line (Life) & Narrative31:57
Explore the graphic timeline approach to trauma assessment and narrative reconstruction, guiding clients from distress to self-regulation and self-compassion while reframing over-adaptation as resilience.
Perceived Threat & The Autonomic Nervous System1:06:23
Explore how perceived threat dysregulates the autonomic nervous system, threat detection, and neocortical function, and learn self-regulation techniques to restore safety and operational performance.
Self-Regulation1:14:58
Learn to regulate the autonomic nervous system to reduce trauma symptoms and improve performance, using self-regulation, peripheral vision, pelvic floor relaxation, and the Yerkes-Dodson law.
Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy54:01
Discover forward facing trauma therapy, a three-phase approach blending education, self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system, and intentional living to heal moral wounds and improve life.
Tri-Phasic Model - Safety & Stabilization23:36
Apply the triphase model - safety and stabilization, remembrance and mourning, and reconnection - to trauma care, emphasizing self-regulation and direct therapeutic exposure to restore function and quality of life.
Skills-Building PMR for Sleep10:48
Teach trauma survivors to recognize sleep onset problems and use a sleep ritual with progressive muscle relaxation and scrunching from toes to head to regulate sleep and improve engagement.
Skills Building - Anchoring & Safe-Place21:14
Master an anchoring and safe-place technique that helps trauma survivors self-regulate by drawing a safe place, using a stone anchor, and establishing consent-based proximity in early treatment.
Skills Building - Thought Field Therapy for Self-Help26:29
Explore thought field therapy as a self-help energy psychology approach to reduce anxiety through tapping sequences on meridian points, supported by evidence-based studies.
Skills Building - End-of-Session & Containment24:00
Learn a practical end-of-session containment technique rooted in dialectical behavior therapy to safely close sessions, using a clipboard, drawing activities, and envelopes to externalize and hold trauma memories.
Skills Building - Self-Rescue from Abreaction13:42
Master grounding techniques to help clients self-rescue from abreaction by engaging the senses, recognizing psychomotor agitation, and developing real-time self-regulation.
Survey of Trauma Treatments (Part I)57:53
Survey trauma treatments including CBT, CPT, and prolonged exposure under VA/DOD guidelines, highlighting structured, collaborative approaches and exposure-based strategies for trauma survivors.
Survey of Trauma Treatments (Part II)39:49
Explore cognitive behavioral trauma treatments, including stress inoculation training and direct therapeutic exposure, plus MDR eye movement desensitization and processing to desensitize triggers.
Survey of Trauma Treatments (Part III)42:49
Explore lesser researched trauma treatments, including hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, visual kinesthetic dissociation, and traumatic incident reduction, emphasizing category C evidence and autonomic nervous system regulation.
Grief Counseling20:53
Outline desensitization and integration of trauma memory alongside grief in stage three, using psychoeducation, normalization, validation, and supportive therapy. Support self-regulation, case management, and resource connection to aid uncomplicated and complicated bereavement within the first year after loss.
Grief Therapy22:58
Apply a task-based grief framework for complicated bereavement, moving from remembrance with pain to remembrance with love through acceptance, externalisation, re-engagement, and narrative integration using desensitization and exposure with relaxation.
Post-Traumatic Growth11:11
This lecture explains stage four post-traumatic growth, shifting from symptom management to intentional living, integrating trauma to foster resilience, spiritual maturation, new relationships, and gratitude through autonomic nervous system regulation.
Conclusion4:19
Review how the empowerment and resilience structure guides the client journey from intake to discharge. Detail competencies for early treatment, assessment, autonomic regulation, memory processing, psychoeducation, and four active ingredients.

Requirements

No Prerequisites

Description

Trauma Competency for the 21st Century teaches cutting-edge interventions and protocols that clinicians can immediately implement to augment their work treating survivors of trauma. This training teaches and clarifies skills drawn from recent research that evolves treatment beyond the antiquated notions and practice of the 20th Century into simple principles and practices that rapidly resolves the effects of traumatic stress.

Deeply rooted in the science and with an eye to the art of treating traumatic stress, Dr. Gentry will stimulate participants with both principles and techniques for rapidly and safely accelerating treatment with clients who suffer from traumatic stress. The two-day symposium provides mental health professionals with unique training grounded in scientific literature and evidence-based practice but without demanding that clients undergo any particular treatment protocol.

Instead, this training teaches clinicians to implement an “active ingredient” approach that extracts and catalyzes each of the common elements of all effective trauma treatments into a set of stages called The Empowerment and Resilience Structure (Gentry, Baranowsky and Rhoton, 2017). This structure firmly establishes a clear pathway for rapidly, effectively and safely resolving the symptoms of traumatic stress that breaks with much of the archaic treatment approaches that are presently utilized to treat trauma.

The Empowerment and Resilience Treatment Structure for Traumatic Stress (Gentry and Rhoton, in press) utilizes four stages to navigate the treatment for those survivors suffering symptoms of posttraumatic stress. These are (1) Preparation and Relationship Building; (2) Cognitive Restructuring and Self-regulation; (3) Desensitization and Integration; and (4) Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience. Included in these stages and taught throughout the two days are the factors that current researchers have identified as effective in therapy with trauma survivors and include: Feedback-driven treatment to build, maintain and enhance therapeutic relationships; motivational interviewing and polyvagal aspects to develop and enhance positive expectancy; psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring to facilitate self-compassion and engagement; interoception and acute relaxation to teach and coach survivors to self-regulate and interrupt their threat response; reciprocal inhibition to facilitate in vivo exposure (instead of the 20th Century focus upon imaginal) exposure to rapidly desensitize and integrate trauma memories, lessen symptoms and improve quality of life; and Forward-Facing ™ Trauma Therapy to stimulate post-traumatic growth and to heal the moral wounds of trauma survivors. This workshop trains the clinician to competency in trauma treatment by engaging generic skills, that do not require the professional to learn and master any particular model of trauma treatment but does, however, accommodate and make an excellent delivery platform for those clinicians who come to the training already trained in one of these protocols (e.g., EMDR. CPT, PE, SE, etc).

For those that do not have training in of these evidence-based models, this two-day workshop also provides instruction in a narrative exposure technique (Baranowsky and Gentry, 2015) to safely and successfully resolve Criterion B (Intrusion) symptoms of flashbacks and nightmares using a five-narrative approach to desensitization and integration.

While this training is science and evidence-based, it is delivered by a clinician that has over 35 years of experience in treating traumatic stress. Dr. Gentry shares lessons from many of his mistakes and helps clinicians avoid many of the common pitfalls that beleaguer clinicians early in their career of treating traumatic stress.

Who this course is for:

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals